Shopware to Shopify migration: replatforming from any version

The trigger differs per Shopware setup, but the question is always the same: how much time and budget goes into the platform, and how much into the store itself. These are the starting points we see most often:

• 01Shopware 5: received security patches until the end of July 2024 and has been end of life since. By Shopware's own account, moving to Shopware 6 is not a simple update; old templates cannot be reused and not every plugin has a successor.
• 02Shopware 6, self-hosted or on PaaS: every major release contains breaking changes. With 6.7, many plugins and themes had to be updated, and hosting and patches stay with you or your partner.
• 03A growing Community Edition: above 1 million euros in GMV over the preceding 365 days, Shopware requires a paid plan even for the free edition. Rise starts at 600 euros and Evolve at 2,400 euros per month excluding VAT, with a price that moves with your GMV.
• 04Shopware Cloud: hosting and updates are taken care of, but plugins, including theme plugins, cannot run there. You extend the shop with apps only.
• 05Growth: selling in more countries, to business customers or in your own store takes extra sales channels, extensions or a higher plan on Shopware; B2B Components start at Evolve.

Shopify carries that layer itself. Hosting, a TLS certificate and PCI DSS Level 1 compliance come with every plan, and new features arrive twice a year in Shopify Editions. Markets, B2B and Shopify POS are part of the platform, so you sell across countries, to businesses and in store from one admin. Your team works on the store, not on the server.

Shopware is a mature platform with strong tools of its own, such as the Rule Builder and Shopping Experiences. Shopify opts for a hosted core with a large app ecosystem. The choice comes down to how much control over code and servers you want to keep, and how much maintenance you carry for it.

For B2B and checkout the plan matters too: catalogues per company and extensions in the checkout steps require Shopify Plus.

• Shopify PlusWhat Plus adds for B2B and checkout.

The price follows from what sits inside your Shopware shop. A Shopware to Shopify migration starts at 15,000 euros for a premium theme build with data migration and redirects. Custom work starts at 25,000 euros, a replatforming to Shopify Plus with ERP integrations and B2B at 35,000 euros. After the audit you receive a tailored quote, with a decision recorded for every plugin and integration.

In your business case, put the running costs side by side too: licence, hosting and upgrades on Shopware against your Shopify plan and apps. Within the migration itself, these factors decide where your project lands:

• 01Catalogue and variants: the number of products, properties and custom fields.
• 02Plugins: every extension that becomes an app, a Shopify feature or custom work.
• 03Shopping Experiences: the number of layouts that become theme sections.
• 04Rules and flows: logic from Rule Builder and Flow Builder, moved to Shopify Functions and Shopify Flow.
• 05Integrations: ERP, PIM, accounting and fulfilment.
• 06Sales channels and B2B: additional domains, languages and currencies, and B2B with its own pricing.

• Shopify pricing in 2026Plans, transaction fees and the costs no pricing page mentions.

Most surprises are not in the import but in the details of Shopware's data model. Shopify also only redirects from URLs that no longer exist, so we test every redirect before the DNS switch and monitor your rankings for 90 days afterwards.

These are the points we check in every audit:

• 01Variant URLs: Shopware can give every variant its own URL; on Shopify, variants share one product URL. Every variant URL gets a 301 redirect to the right product.
• 02More than three dimensions: Shopify works with up to three options per product. If a product has more variant properties, we decide up front what becomes an option and what becomes a metafield.
• 03Filters: Shopify shows a maximum of 25 filters per store. Together we choose which properties remain filters.
• 04Multilingual domains: a Shopware sales channel can give each domain its own language and currency. We connect every domain to the right market in Shopify Markets.
• 05Customer passwords: they are encrypted and cannot be migrated. On Shopify your customers sign in with a one-time code; we prepare the announcement together with you.
• 06Tracking: scripts in your Shopware theme move to Shopify's pixels manager, which also measures in checkout. We test every measurement before the DNS switch.

• Shopify SEOTheme-level technical SEO, including after a migration.